Die Welt reviews Leif Ove’s recital in Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle
… Nobel and majestically he shaped the sound in “The Spruce” whose quiet opening is interrupted by a nervous middle relapse in stoic silence. But Andsnes is also a quick-change artist who with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 31 no. 3 took a completely different approach. Here dominated an extreme density and inner logic … Although technically very difficult, his perfomance of excerpts from Debussy’s “Douze Études” sounded light. At the end came Chopin’s Impromptus, Op. 29, which breathed calmly, and the Nocturne in F major op. 15 no. 1, whose cantabile theme you could hardly imagine being played with more fragility.”
Source: Die Welt